VA Guide for CAT 2008

[naresh007]

@vars.jat,
Here's the reasons for 2nd & 5th SCs...

Agreement was done in the past (1972) and should be shown in the past. municipalities were dumping before the agreement therefore had is required.

Two actions completed in the past:
First action: municipalities were dumping - Past Prefect (HAD)
Second action (happened after first): Agreement reached to reduce the amount
Simple Past

2nd)
A 1972 agreement between Canada and the United States reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump into the Great Lakes.
(A) reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump
(B) reduced the phosphate amount that municipalities had been dumping
(C) reduces the phosphate amount (missing that) municipalities have been allowed to dump
(D) reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities are allowed to dump

(E) reduces the amount of phosphates allowed for dumping by municipalities

5th SC) Except A all other has modifier problems.


Well, i'm very sorry...yaar, i may not met your expectations while reasoning....i'm not good in SCs . i just dont wanna messup by givin my reasons...hope U won't mind..! it will be great, if people who are good in these areas can share their views..so that people like me can learn lott...


always SCs gonna my nemisis in CAT..., i'm sure this time i wanna overcome..smartly ..

Originally Posted by vars.jat

@ naresh.
Please post your reasoning for 2nd and last one for second set .Unless we understand the reason why the other options are wrong ,we can not be gud in sentence correction.


I think we are posting in wrong thread,there is another link for SC for CAT-2008.All the SC questions should be posted there and the usages(as given vy tzshrivastva)or other thingslike FIJ should be posted in this thread i.e. VA Guide for CAT 2008.

[Iota]

Originally Posted by tzsrivastava

also i can send regular tests on VA/VR(Sentence correction,Jumbled Sentences,vocab,fill in blanks etc) to everyone who is interested....say 1 test a day or atmost in 2 days....and later on discuss that on the thread....
this way we will be able to map our progress with fellow mates and also if we r unable to visit pagalguy 4 sum reason at least we will have the repository there in our mail boxes...

decide and let me know the nominations...


rgds
tarun

wow.. lots of enthusiasm pouring in this thread. adrenalin seems to be rushing down the vein. Well guys we do need these initiatives in order to excel a cause-which is a common cause here -- thts tame the feline .

hey tarun and others kudos to u guys, have done a wonderful job chocking out plans,identifying proper threads and also contributing to those in a very efficient manner.
few bucks suggestions from my side ,if unsuitable in the present scenario,brickbats are welcome .

@ tarun i am not pretty sure,whc mail box u r talking about. b'coz if its PG mailbox - the storage is limited-so in that case repository idea drops hence forth. but ya if u can send it to personal mail ids i.e yahoo,gmail etc then that may help.
But again the basic idea is to practice and discuss. so to me, as we have seen in the recent past in pg, that we can post the questions in the forum in respective threads and evryone can pour in there answers queries whatevr it takes in the same thread.
and about repository-- i have an idea- infact thats the stolen one --
in one of the sacred threads for preparation in PG, i have seen someone maintains a list of important post in the same thread,if you follow those numbers u can zero down the important fundas,questions etc present in the thread.
any one of us can keep the post# of the questions posted and thr consolidated answer posted in one post-- sayin most important posts. and keep on editing that with further exercises. I am on for this idea b'coz mails are those demons which never makes u work . at least that is the case with me. I used to receive lots of questions,puzzles etc thru mail but nvr worked on those. as pg is our second home and first office , all of us wll be active here -- hope so.
so just consider this as a point being raised, thats it. neway i will abide by the group decision.

[Iota]

on e more idea struck me

we can give a unique name to the questions posted- like say : "Parajumbled Question # " and the consolidated answer may contain "Parajumbke Answer #".
thr is a option - to search in the thread, whc we can use in order to search the required stuffs.

[tzsrivastava]

Originally Posted by Iota

wow.. lots of enthusiasm pouring in this thread. adrenalin seems to be rushing down the vein. Well guys we do need these initiatives in order to excel a ........

excellent suggestions iota....(knowing ur name is a high priority now ).....
all points taken...
by 2morrow post -lunch i will post the study plan of verbal and my take on that(actually its just 2-3 dia's thats it)...lets decide on it and move fwd...

and as the repository stuff goes..someone among us can take this job voluntarily,which we can decide ......

thanks 4 ur inputs...

rgds
tarun

[rainbowsurfer]

@iota and tanuj,
guys..i too want to join u all in this effort..i guess VA is the one section thats going to take the most effort..at least for me!
btw..i am having difficulty starting it..at the moment its all scattered..couple of things here and there..how r u guys studying for VA?? plz let me know..

looking forwrd to ur plan tanuj!
cheers!

[tzsrivastava]

Originally Posted by rainbowsurfer

@iota and tanuj,
guys..i too want to join u all in this effort..i guess VA is the one section thats going to take the most effort..at least for me!
btw..i am having difficulty starting it..at the moment its all scattered..couple of things here and there..how r u guys studying for VA?? plz let me know..

looking forwrd to ur plan tanuj!
cheers!

if u r reffering me then i am Tarun and not tanuj....and if the post was for someone else then really sorry and u can groan at this post...
tarun

[ankur991]

Hi everybody!

"Impossible says I M POSSIBLE"

[tzsrivastava]

hi puys

i am attaching the study plan's draft version....kindly review it and post ur suggestions.... sub topics and time frames for each of them can be set through mutual consent and discussion....hoping for a gud learning experience with all u guys out here...

tarun

[tzsrivastava]

continuing with the above post...
GRAMMAR
i have categorized grammar in following sub topics:
1) Basics (which i hope everybody knows..but still v wil brush thru them)
2)Active Passive(place where v tend to make most mistakes)
3)Faulty Predication (again confusing ones)
4)Parallelism(most oftenly used now a days in all exams)
5)Subject verb aggrement(one most imp aspect of grammar)
6)Compendium of any rule that can be sufficed here.
7)Tips & Tricks.

[vars.jat]

bhyia main to ready hun...